Hackmatack is a literacy program open to Grades 4-6 in Atlantic Canada. Children can choose to read five books from a selection of either Fiction or Non-Fiction books from Canadian authors and then vote on what they thought was their favorite book.

The Hackmatack program  is an excellent way to help promote literacy and advance reading among school-aged children in Atlantic Canada and runs from November 2009- mid April 2010.

Sign-up for the Hackmatack reading program will take place in November and meetings are held every Monday at lunch in the library where the students can sit back and enjoy their Hackmatack picks during silent reading.

This years nominated books are:

English Fiction:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

****My prediction...Wanting Mor

English Non-Fiction:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

***My Prediction- The Children of Africville

 

 

 

 

 

The 2009-2010 winner of the Fiction Hackmatack Award is...

Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee

The 2009-2010

 

winner of the Non-Fiction Award is...

Gotcha: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends by David Acer

 

 

 

For more information on the Hackmatack program

 please go to www.hackmatack.ca